What is the difference between these two drivers ?

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Mon May 11 19:35:16 UTC 2020


On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 3:30 PM Sreyan Chakravarty <sreyan32 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone tell me what is the difference between these 2 drivers:
>
> xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu
>
> xorg-x11-drv-ati
>
>
> They both seem to be doing the same thing. Why use one instead of the
> other ?
>

They support different hardware generations.  -ati supports the
original r1xx radeons through Sea Islands asics.  -amdgpu supports
everything newer.

Alex

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> Sreyan
>
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